Was Khomeini a Sufi?
An anthology of poems is a book written by Imam Khomeini, recently translated into Arabic by Egyptian “oriental languages� Professor Mohammad Mansour Al-Amin published recently, Dr. Mansour wrote in the interdiction of the book that Khomeini’s poems reflect his mystical thoughts influenced by Sufism.
That was a start of a very interesting debate, Iraq scholar Balkis Hassan, and daughter of Iraqi poet Hameed Al-Saneed argues that the poems are very romantically written but she denies the Sufism factor in Khomeini’s poetry, Hassan said:
Although the mystism is same, but the vocabularies in Khomeini’s poets are pure human romance and a language of love, Sufis poetry, spiritually denies the use of the human symbols to describe love, a person is a mirror which, when polished, reflects God.
Dr. Hassan asks the readers to compare these two verses from two poems
The first one is from Sufi poet Al-Hallaj
His soul is my soul, my soul is his soul
Both two souls are in one body.
(The use of “his� is a reference to the divine)
Compare it to this verse from Khomeini:
With wine o my love
Fill up this cup of mine
Let not my honour grow
Let not my name shine
(This is not the same example the writer used)
Here I found some sample of Khomeini’s poets in English (this is the only one available)
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